Tray not showing up, background missing.

[azure grove]

I was using Mint fine, when suddenly as soon as I restarted the computer, once I got past the login screen my desktop background appeared for a second, and then dissapeared. My two drives as well as any desktop shortcuts I have in there appear, however there is no desktop background and no tray, The terminal shortcut does not work, however I can right click to open the terminal from the desktop. If I press Ctrl+Alt+Esc, everything does go back to normal, however this issue happens every time I reboot Mint, meaning that I'd have to input that shortcut every time, and I would prefer not to.

[bronze zodiac]

do you mind explaining that better

try refresh cinnamon from tty

here is the brave search ai resolt

To refresh the Cinnamon desktop environment, you can use several methods. The most straightforward is to press Alt + F2 to open the Run dialog, type r, and press Enter, which restarts Cinnamon without losing open windows and applications.
Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Alt + Esc, which directly restarts Cinnamon and causes the desktop to blank out momentarily before refreshing.
For users who prefer a graphical approach, right-clicking on any Cinnamon desktop panel and selecting Troubleshoot > Restart Cinnamon from the menu will also refresh the desktop.
If these methods are not accessible, you can restart Cinnamon via the terminal using the command pkill -HUP cinnamon or killall -HUP cinnamon, which sends a hang-up signal to restart the session without terminating the X session.
For a more permanent solution, especially if the desktop is unresponsive, you can use cinnamon --replace & disown in the terminal to restart Cinnamon while keeping it running in the background.

[azure grove]

Well from what I saw, whenever I booted up the install, after login the desktop background would appear for a couple seconds, then it would dissapear, the icons for both of my drives and my shortcuts would show up in the desktop. No tray, terminal could only be opened by right clicking the desktop

Eventually I just said fuck it and reinstalled mint and that seems to have fixed the issue

Ill close the thread for now since I fixed it by just reinstalling. Still a weird bug though

[bronze zodiac]

k what you could of done is when you installed mint you could of used timeshift wich is a check point kind of

js trying to help ppl

[azure grove]

yeah i got that set up now

[bronze zodiac]

nice

[azure grove]

nah ure good thanks for the advice

[bronze zodiac]

i got 2 myself incase i fuck something up

[azure grove]

fair lol